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多,但最讓我感興趣的,莫過於一個放著總統(tǒng)先生(譯按,即羅斯福總統(tǒng))演說草稿的玻璃箱,里頭從第一份草稿、第二份草稿,一直到第六份草稿。昨天,我碰巧向總統(tǒng)先生提及此事,我說我很高興知道,以他如此知名又公認(rèn)一流的演說家,還必須寫這麼多份草稿。他回答說,有時他一次演說得寫12份草稿。因此,今天本人在此發(fā)表的即席演說,我確信各位一定會包容。 The traditional friendship between your country and mine has a history of 160 years. I feeland I believe that I am not the only one who feels this waythat there are a great many similarities between your people and mine, and that these similarlties are the basis of our friendship. 貴國和敝國之間有著160年悠久歷史的情誼,我覺得貴國人民和敝國百姓有許許多多的相似點(diǎn),而這些相似點(diǎn)正是兩國情誼的基礎(chǔ),我也相信不是只有我有這樣的感覺。 I should like to tell you a little story which will illustrate this belief. When General Doolittle and his men went to bomb Tokyo, on their return some of your boys had to bail out in the interior of China. One of them later told me that he had to bail out of his ship. and that when he landed on Chinese soil and saw the populace running to